Similarities between Claudia Sheinbaum and former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern suggest Mexico’s first female president could have a big impact on the world stage, Prof Robert Patman tells Global Insight.
The writings of a man once disdained by academics are now lauded for helping southern Māori rebuild lost knowledge and mana. Bruce Munro looks at the legacy of Herries Beattie.
The state of emergency in New Caledonia presents a considerable challenge for NZ's foreign policy efforts in the Pacific, international relations expert Prof Robert Patman says.
Four decades after Tapanui flu, the ME/CFS community is marking international awareness day with a call to urgently address research and treatment needs.
It’s been four decades since reports emerged of a mysterious, fatiguing illness afflicting dozens of people in West Otago.
China's ‘‘dictatorship’’ can be contained more effectively by defeating Russia’s ‘‘barbaric’’ invasion of Ukraine than by joining Aukus, Professor Robert Patman tells Global Insight.
It takes some searching, but the legacy of Rakiura-Stewart Island’s Norwegian whalers runs deeper than even their descendants realise, writes Bruce Munro.
Allowing representatives of Myanmar’s violent junta to attend an important Asia leaders’ meeting in NZ could signal the govt's willing to back down on values like human rights, Prof Robert Patman warns.
Five years after the deadly March 15 Christchurch mosque attacks we need to do more to counter the spread of hate and division, at home and in places like Gaza, Prof Robert Patman says.
Lee Tamahori’s new feature film The Convert thrusts viewers into 1830s Aotearoa-New Zealand; a Māori world dominated by tribal warfare.
Vladimir Putin needs to watch for "international blowback", including on the battlefield in Ukraine, following the suspicious death of Alexei Navalny.
The NZ government should support former Prime Minister Helen Clark in calling out countries for prematurely axing funding to the UN aid agency in Gaza, Prof Robert Patman tells Global Insight this week.
NZ should urge the US to stop supplying Israel with weapons for a conflict where war crimes are being committed, international relations expert Prof Robert Patman tells Global Insight.
There was not a day Esther Hippe was not grateful to the people of New Zealand for giving her a new life after she escaped East Germany.
Disarray has been a major theme of global politics in 2023, Prof Robert Patman says.
Pacific Island states are right to think oil and gas exploration in NZ is an ‘‘inter-mestic’’ issue on which they deserve to have some say, Prof Robert Patman says.
Israel and main ally the United States need to pursue a ceasefire, not a humanitarian truce, in the conflict with Hamas, Prof Robert Patman says.
Our new foreign minister should call for an immediate, lasting ceasefire and the release of all hostages to end the Israel-Hamas war, foreign affairs specialist Prof Robert Patman tells Global Insight.
Defence personnel with a shopping list are heading across the ditch to an international naval expo early next month.
The Hamas group’s shocking attack on Israel was a bad miscalculation and NZ should remind Israel not to make the same mistake, Otago Uni's Professor Robert Patman says.
